So a 6 tonne stone was transported from Scotland to Stonehenge 5,000 years ago

Minusorange said:
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Stonehenge mystery deepens as altar traced to Scotland

A central stone of the famous Stonehenge monument in southwest England came from 750 kilometres away in northeast Scotland, surprised scientists said Wednesday, solving one mystery but raising another: how did its prehistoric builders move the huge slab so far?Another option was that the...
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Pretty impressive when you think of all the various topography they would have to overcome if it was just pushed along on log rollers and how did they manage to get it across rivers, they must have surely come across some rivers and their bridge building skills would surely not be advanced enough to hold 6 tonne stones, to push it 750km they must have been ripped to get it up the hills, also how did they know where to push it to ? They wouldn't have a map or roads to follow so there must be some trial & error in the journey where they got lost on the way ?
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The same mystery surrounding how many civilisations around the entire planet tens of thousands of years ago managed to move megalithic stones into position and then perfectly carve them using what mainstream archaeology claims were just hand tools. These are stones that aren't merely single digit ton weights, these are multiple tens of tons each and nobody in modern times has been able to replicate these carvings using "hand tools", experts in stonework have said they would need machines to get that kind of precision today. Quite fascinating...

It's a method/technology/skill that's lost to the ages but the really strange part is none of these civilisations ever wrote about how they did it leading some to believe that they merely inherited it from a past civilisation and then proceeded to repair/replicate (or try to) which is why no such structures were ever built after those eras. From the megalithic structures in India to the Neolithic structures in Turkey dating back over 10,000 years - A time-frame mainstream archaeologists claimed had no such structures because humans were not capable of it way back then, that was until Göbekli Tepe was discovered in Turkey and they fell mostly silent.

There's loads more too and many now are under ownership of a large conglomerate who has the sole purpose of commercialising these sites and putting a stop to any excavation for reasons unknown.

The other mystery surrounds how many of these structures follow stark similarities in design and craftsmanship, as if the same builders spread all around the world building them wherever they went, or people shared a common knowledge. For example pyramids are found on every continent, al following a similar build structure, stone carvings too follow the same precision and styles between countries.
 
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SexyGreyFox said:
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Yeah, but…was there even any sort of unified religion in the British Isles at that point?
I would have thought that any comms between areas of Britain would have been over a relatively short distance - 750km seems huge
When they first linked all the Welsh stones to S Wales, there was incredulity that they could have come from there, and they are now talking 3 or 4 times the distance for this one
If you look at what was in the Med at the same time, it would be believable, but I wasn’t aware that there was any of this sort of long distance communication around these islands
 
potatolord said:
It raises all sorts of interesting questions about communication between people throughout Britain at the time.

What was so special about the Scottish site that made it worthwhile to do that?
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Possibly it wasn't specifically moved from Scotland to Stonehenge but possibly over years, decades even, moved around the country maybe used for awhile at other sites and/or used as a form of payment even. Eventually ended up at Stonehenge.
 
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mrk said:
The same mystery surrounding how many civilisations around the entire planet tens of thousands of years ago managed to move megalithic stones into position and then perfectly carve them using what mainstream archaeology claims were just hand tools. These are stones that aren't merely single digit ton weights, these are multiple tens of tons each and nobody in modern times has been able to replicate these carvings using "hand tools", experts in stonework have said they would need machines to get that kind of precision today. Quite fascinating...

It's a method/technology/skill that's lost to the ages but the really strange part is none of these civilisations ever wrote about how they did it leading some to believe that they merely inherited it from a past civilisation and then proceeded to repair/replicate (or try to) which is why no such structures were ever built after those eras. From the megalithic structures in India to the Neolithic structures in Turkey dating back over 10,000 years - A time-frame mainstream archaeologists claimed had no such structures because humans were not capable of it way back then, that was until Göbekli Tepe was discovered in Turkey and they fell mostly silent.

There's loads more too and many now are under ownership of a large conglomerate who has the sole purpose of commercialising these sites and putting a stop to any excavation for reasons unknown.

The other mystery surrounds how many of these structures follow stark similarities in design and craftsmanship, as if the same builders spread all around the world building them wherever they went, or people shared a common knowledge. For example pyramids are found on every continent, al following a similar build structure, stone carvings too follow the same precision and styles between countries.
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IMO the big difference is time - if you spend enough time even with relatively crude tools many high precision results are possible - sometimes it might be the product of multiple attempts until some came out good enough, etc. unlike today where we waste those hours away on the internet heh.
 
None of the researchers/modern day independent experts have proposed time as an explanation though. The precision of these rocks and the way they are cut isn't something that gets refined over time, they were cut, placed and they stayed that way for thousands of years after which we still see to this day, we are talking gaps between rocks that not even a sheet of paper can fit through. That is the kind of precision we are talking.

It's absolutely lost knowledge, and for some reason none of these civilisations chose to document how they did it which to me is the biggest mystery lending some fuel to the idea that they were inherited from a past civilisation currently unknown to us and later people tried to replicate them but didn't quite get the finesse right - Something which is evidenced strongly in Egypt with pottery made of granite that is so precise the rounded base vases perfectly balance and spin when placed on a tabletop, yet later replicas by post-dynastic Egyptians don't have that level of precision so it's clear they tried to replicate previous works, but could not, indicating that not even Egyptians had recorded knowledge of how it was done, which would explain why they never documented anything about all this stuff.

Rannoch said:
A large strong troll moved it?
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DVDbunny?
 
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2649bc they had batteries, not exactly relevant but we under estimate what they could do. I thought all these places were different kingdoms at war dying early deaths not shifting large decorations about the country like a white van on the A1.

Did they rule out the ice age glaciers moving these rocks, it would be smoothed from that process perhaps
 
Oh yeah the Baghdad batteries, it is thought that these were used for electroplating jewellery and armour - How did they discover this, and did they use the process for other means, such as moving tools - Again a mystery, but it shows a sound knowledge of science and chemistry, but yet again no documented writing explaining how/why.
 
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Rroff said:
Possibly it wasn't specifically moved from Scotland to Stone Henge but possibly over years, decades even, moved around the country maybe used for awhile at other sites and/or used as a form of payment even. Eventually ended up at Stone Henge.
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Anything's possible.

Around the same time, Avebury circle and Silbury Hill were constructed just down the road.

We really don't understand much about the people of the time. They were as intelligent as us, and could have had good trade and communication networks. I wouldn't underestimate them.
 
Ice moved it in the ice age (drop stones) and it just looks like it came from Scotland.

/I did not read the article ;)
 
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